- Drummer Finds asylum in
North Woods resort
- Star Tribune, Mpls.
7/17/96
- Reprinted without
permission
- Now that he's given up
life on the road, former Soul Asylum drummer Grant Young will run a
resort in the North Woods.
Young, 32, and his wife, Cathy Mindel, moved from the Uptown area of
Minneapolis to Ely in March and bought the Northernair Lodge. Quite a
difference, they say,
from their old lifestyle with the Twin Cities band, which found Young on
the road nine months out of the year.
After Young left the band in September 1994, the couple considered
opening a bed and breakfast, but Mindel, who had been in the restaurant
business for many years, wanted a change from that too. "So we
started to look around for resorts, Young said. "It was sort of a
daydream for us. Then all of a sudden, boom,
here we were." The
Northernair Lodge, which has been open as a resort since the 1930s, is
on Mitchell Lake, about 3 miles southwest of Ely.
"I like living in the middle of nowhere," Young said. "I
used to be concerned about how the rock shows would go each night. Now
I'm in the woods, making sure the customers' beds are made."
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- Grant was featured in
the November 1996 issue of "REQUEST", the Sam Goody magazine,
which included a fab Daniel Corrigan photo.